Hey, hey Jon, calm, calm! It will be OK! Say OOOOOOOMMM ;-)
If it helps, I use ColourCare (see www.colourcare.co.uk) through my
local chemist and they are pretty quick (next day from before 0930).
More importantly for me, they process a 120 film for the same price
as 35mm and their quality is a better average than you seem to be
getting.
I got particularly bad service from Max Spielman (in Cambridge) some
months ago, so I sent the complete package to their head office in
Liverpool; it only took them a month to send back decent set of
prints from my perfectly fine negatives.
I have had Minolta Scan Dual, a Scan Elite and now a Canoscan FS4000.
The Elite was good, but the FS4000 is more than I really need most of
the time. You will not have been successful at your first go with a
scanner, because it does take some practice to get the settings right.
You would be able to buy a secondhand scan elite for about £300 GBP I
reckon (check the classifieds in AP). A decent photo printer will
cost less than £200 GBP new. I would offer to sell you my old Stylus
Photo 750, but I am still using it with my 1290. The inks are pricey
for the proprietary brands, but much cheaper if you get generic
(whose performance is fine as far as I can make out, they just smell
different).
Good luck
Chris
At 17:44 +0000 05/12/02, Jon Mitchell wrote:
OK, so I've finally lost it with developers / processors. The prices they
are charging me are going up and up and the quality is getting worse. Now
I've recently acquired a very nice OM-4 from a list member (thank you,
anonimous enabler !) and love the fact that I can use the spot meter to
choose which area of the frame I want to meter from and get exposed
correctly. But WHAT IS THE BL**DY POINT IF THE D*MNED DEVELOPER AVERAGES
EVERYTHING OUT WHEN ITS PRINTED !!!!
etc...
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Gamlingay, England
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